Are you still living on the Farm, Annette? (Has anyone stolen your library card yet? That may be all you have left in the way of entertainment!)

quick...post your snail mail address!!!

Annette, how good's your German? What bass did you have?

My German is as limited as my good luck, Alexander...;) I had a Peavey Foundation bass. But, next week, I am going to purchase a Ibanez GSR100. Can't spend summer without a bass...too many good gigs happening. Everything else can wait...Hey, I still have YOU guys...right? (Shhhhhhh...guess I'd better not say that TOO loud, huh?)

(So you have some luck - got some German to? What do you play?)

Mostly the blues. Rock (the older stuff) finds it's way in, too. We do a lot of SRV and Eric Clapton, quite a lot of Motown stuff...right now, we're "re-organizing". (I like that word!;) ) The lead guitarist and lead singer were married, and, recently divorced, (typical story, hmm?) so, we're shuffling around for another lead guitarist. It will come together, but, it just takes time to get the right chemistry.

Did you keep the guy or the gal?

(Probably just kept the dog and the ole Pick-up truck...)

Aarrgh!! My hard drive has to be replaced! Help! I'm stranded in the sea of losers in the library...

woo woo! Autumn's hanging out with the bookworms!

Autumn, pitch me one of those Poe classics over there, please...:) (BTW, I moved from The Farm back to Hohenwald...couldn't stand the cold in that cabin!) Alexander, we kept the gal. The guy needed to move on into some other aspects of his music career, and, well, I think we were just holding him back from branching out when he needed to. He and his ex didn't really needed to get away from each other, anyway.

...DID really need to get away from each other... Jeez...it's late...brain is going mush...(mushier)

Oh. But I DO like mushy brains! So the guy needed to branch out, huh? Sounds like opening franchises was why they split... So: Who kept the dog and the pick-up? I guess he took that great vintage amp, too,... (More in Music Conf/Record Collecting topic...)

HEY!!!! I wanna talk about why the hell the 'what I ate today topic is frozen and who's gonna unfreeze it so's I can go on and on about all the good stuff I ate today!

did I freeze the wrong one? oops...

phew... now I feel less silly... you froze the wrong one!!!

no I didn't...

yep, you did!

no I didn't...

Bet you did... Alexander, SHE got the dog...HE got the pick-up. :)

he did Annette

He did Annette AND got the pick-up? Wow. Nowwaitaminute - whatareyoutellinme?

wouldn't matter Alexander... you wouldn't think about it anyway and what's the fun in that?!?!

;=}

Yes, but there's more to being than mere thinking. How about feeling, guessing, imagining, the whole nonintellectual apparatus? Works ok for me, way better than ratio-only, hardcore thinking approaches ever did. Bear with me. Just because I'm not so hot on intellectualism and indifferent brainism doesn't mean I've got no game going. Maybe I work with a different technique, but nevertheless I try, and try as good as any other. (Though admittedly trying sometimes *is* quite the trial... but that's the same for smart thinkers, too.)

just teasing you Alexander! gotta point out the discrepancy though... your posts certainly lend the reader to believe you are quite the intellectual thinker...

...wrong. I'm through with that. Ignorance is bliss.

worng... but if you insist on being ignorant to the truth... so be it! (just being argumentative of course but in reality i don't believe that ignorance is preferable to knowledge... on much of anything...) .ok

There is no truth. There are only opinions. Knowledge is a burden that's not always easy to bear; even more seldom is it appreciated by others. Ignorance is not the opposite to open-mindedness; ignorance is the opposite to itself. Ignorance is the perfect chance for growth.

then Ignorance is potential and not necessarily bliss...

Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is competitive and segregates again in haves and have-nots. Makes people feel alienated from each other, even offended. Few people are offended by ignorance. (Mind you, my dears, we're not talking stupidity. That's a different topic, along with narrow-mindedness and prejudices and smart-assing and holier-than-thouing. File ignornace beside amateurism - who still love what they do -, and dilettantism, where everything is just play and fun. Maybe the three capital virtues - ignorance, amateurism, dilettantism.)

I don't know that I'd want that on my resume... William is an ignorant, amateur dilettante...

actually i AM offended by ignorance. racial and ethic and religious prejudices often (USUALLY) stem from ignorance... the majority of frustration in my work and the majority of accidents that happen in our facilities stem from ignorance -- learned or otherwise... I truly believe ignorance (especially intended) is a liability in most cases. I certainly see degrees and topics that one might choose, for his/her own self-preservation to be ignorant of... Sometimes when you ARE informed and have taken the time to be thought out on a topic, life is even more fun

Stacey, such stupidity is truly an awful thing. But I mean something different by ignorance, and again, it it a language and cultural barrier, limiting my means to express my feelings. Also, I realise that my position on things has much to do with the life I've lead up to now, which I lived and nobody else.

So, Stace, does my ignorance truly offend you? Or is it just that you are afraid that you would have to fit me into the categories where you got those people you think "ignorant" filed? Both would be sad, because unnecessary ("No need to kick a man who's down."), plus we got along great until I mentioned this absurd idea of mine, but it would be fun, though, or rather: fascinating to see how me being like this - trying not to get people blow up at me, and be really cooperative and accessible - would achieve opposite effects.

first of all I don't believe you're truly ignorant. I believe you are probably more informed than most and therefore would like to plead and/or be ignorant because the alternative is too complicated. You do not offend me. Truly ignorant people (who have no desire to improve on that situation and who in their ignorance misjudge things/people/ideas (yadda yadda yadda)) offend me frequently. Certainly not by their mere existence but in their apathy. The disintegration of society's as the world pnce knew them has a lot to do with this apathy IMHO. People would rather not know than know and feel compelled to at a minimum care if not contribute to a solution... BTW, please never misconstrue my getting all heated about a topic/idea/subject as something angry or personal against the speaker "poster"... when I am truly pissed all shall know!!! *smile*

because she'll SAY SO...

... she does, huh? What do you say?

that depends...

...?

precisely!!!

A-hem!

A-dress!

A-line!

A-nother?

what's a 'nother'?

that's over...who one?

Me two.

you eight it!!!

10ding the garden again, Stace?

cute! yep sure am. it's just 2 rainy today though .ok damn

So, no birds in the 3s?

*laugh* nope they fell on the 4.

Hmh, ice-cream - a nice big c1.

ooooh, my....all this over a pickup truck? (*snicker) ...interesting enough....;-)

ice cream...double c.....mmmmmmmm.

Well, Annette, what could I do? Feel like responding to # 121 ff. (Stacey hinted at something...), or check into http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/music/67.68 and tell us how they split up the record collection? I'm also curious - who got the amps? So, while we all have a nice big c1 - or double c1 -, would you tell me?

how come i cannot get audio with the "echo juliet" slides?? is this from the capezeyz show?

did you ever get your sound?

What I never got was any of you jokers to explain to me how to put images into a reply. I would very much appreciate it if somebody - even perhaps one of the more dignified entities floating around here - WOULD PLEASE TELL ME! Well, I want to post the cover of our #13 into the superstar topic.

tonight...I promise...gotta go do a command performance at Little Italy in a few moments...

Okay, Alexander: Got your default.htm page so that all the graphics work, and the top two links across the top to work...also made a copy of it called index.html so that any of these will work for the url... http://www.spring.net/~aschuth/ http://www.spring.net/~aschuth/index.html http://www.spring.net/~aschuth/default.htm posted the cover up in the superstar topic, so go in and do a view source and you'll see the correct code for that particular picture... (I'm gonna get credit in your mag for grunt webwork, right? it would look really cool on my resume...hehe...)

(Yeah, we'll get that figured, mate - still, get back to me on the merchandise issue...)

(Ok, as soon as I got my harddisk restored I'll download all that and work further on updating it... Still not in shape to publish it, like lots of old addresses around, no new content + images, concert schedules, etc.)

understood...

take the Austin Powers Personality Quiz, baby! http://www.careerpath.com/ows-bin/editorial.cgi/special/cpapquiz.htm?style=cp I turned out to be the Man Himself, Austin Powers! Smashing, love! You've made a match with the international man of mystery. You have a talent for mixing�work with pleasure, cocktails with spying�but you always accomplish your mission, no matter the obstacle. Or obstacles. Oh, behave! You're a man in psychedelic motion and recruited constantly. We won't talk about what for. Freelance consulting is the ideal career for you, allowing you the freedom to swing from one assignment to the other. Yeah, baby!

Just what I said. Why don't you listen to us here, but to some stupid quiz, baby?

cuz I can't afford the meds?

Oh, what meds? Get down to it, honey - this is all natural goodness, bright sunshine and honest excitement. (*yawn*) Most of the times, at least... Basically, it's really good for you!

the Spring as a whole, or listening to you guys?

"natural goodness, bright sunshine and honest excitement" is, sweety, what do you think? We folks don't always qualify for that, let's be honest, so go for a walk outside and watch a butterfly... (*walking off into the sunset, flowers in my hair + no sandals on my feet*)

Or forget about my crap, ignore the med-item (something serious or just prozac?), and hack away!

i'll forget about your crap...

...happy to hear that!

how's the knee?

Itchin'?

are you asking me or telling me?

Yeah. Huh, you're itchin to know, aren't ya? Wouldn't tell you, just to work up some suspense in your life... Naw, I spill it. This suspense-building thing only wrecks my nerves. Yeah, guess you are itching to know, and I'm itching to itch. &%$%�!-M�ckenstich!

and may I ask WHY are your knees itching?

Fungus? Athritis? Watch that, girl - you'll become as nosy as me! Just a M�ckenstich. No biggie, just itchy...

hey, is it just me or has anybody else noticed that the ad on the spring cam is for the Jaguars and they're using a picture of a cheetah?

and I thought it was an ocelot...

no, sweetie, didja see the black tear line from the cat's eye to his cheek? i wouldn't want to sign up with them to cheer or play football if they can't tell the difference between a jaguar and a cheetah.....

just teasin', Wolf, but my, you sure know your competition...

"it's canine vs feline here on this wonderful sunday morn' at the SPRING stadium..."

*grin* survival of the fittest, my dear!!

Mark me dead meat then. But, hey, can I bring allies?

...just took a vote...Sure you can! Anything I can do to help?

... sharpen your teeth and claws methinks!

*big wolfy toothy grin*

sorry to interupt... just came in from watching the shuttle fly over on re-entry...

woo woo! when I was a little girl in SA the shuttle used to piggyback into Kelly right over our backyard...

wasn't that cool!! i got pictures and if they came out good, i'll post them.

Please do post them. This is the first shuttle mission I have not have full screen nasa tv on nor checked the orbits to see when we could see it. It has been visible several times that I have looked, but it must have been much closer for you if it was coming in for a landing. Fantastic. I am thrilled for y'all!

Hope you guys have good memories because I expect a full color sketch if your pictures did not come out well.

*lol*

I think I might be artistic enough to pull that one off...

but then again...

....(getting out my knitting and finding a soft place on the grass)....I'll wait...just don't forget, please!

Re: Response 187 I know what ally I'm looking for, should I ever be in such a mess. In South China exists a small sort of wild cat (possibly called Biao), that does the most amazing thing for fun, which qualifies the kitty for major ally-materiel. You know how everybody says everything animals do is just driven by needs and urges, like to feed, etc.? Wrong. This krazy kat knows how to have a good time. When it is bored - say, it's Saturday night, it's in the middle of a South Chinese jungle, beer is out and the movie sucked - it positively JUMPS OM THE BACK OF A TIGER AND PUTS THEM CLAWS TO WORK ON THE TIGERS BUTT !